Averting rhymes with:
converting, diverting, perverting, reverting, subverting, alerting, asserting, converting, disconcerting, diverting, exerting, flirting, herting, hurting, inserting, perverting, reasserting, reverting, shirting, skirting, spurting, squirting, subverting
Averting sounds like:
aberrations, aborting, abortions, affording, apparitions, apportioning